Abductive Reasoning by Children - Heidi Kloos, Guy Van OrdenChildren can link facts and events into integrated beliefs. This ability of the mind to combine facts to form higher-order Gestalts is central to many cognitive activities, including problem solving, analogical reasoning, and creative thought. In fact, it is central to the abduction of meaning: the creation of a self-sustaining pattern of ordered facts that are combined in the larger Gestalt. Abduction has mostly escaped experimental investigation, possibly because it often emerges instantly and...Keywords:Abduction; Reasoning; Nonlinear Dynamics; Constraints; Parameter DynamicsDownloads: 128

scaling relation for a compact crumpled thin sheet - Bai,Wubin /Lin,Yen-Chih /Hou,Tzon-Kun /Hong,Tzay-Ming /A high-pressure chamber was designed to study the crumpling of thin sheets beyond the power-law regime. Preceded by a smooth transition, the crumpled ball that characterizes the high-pressure state contains less than 50% air and exhibits separate ordered domains. All the data for different sheet thickness, size, and even number collapse to a master line when using volume ratio and pressure as the plotting parameters...Keywords:Nonlinear Dynamics; Fluid Dynamics; Classical Optics; condensed matter; crumplingDownloads: 136